Bann Thai — Restaurant in Vancouver

We’ve been exploring Thai cuisine around the city lately.  It’s definitely our go-to comfort food, especially during the summer. While we were in the Marpole area, we dropped by Bann Thai Kitchen at Granville & 70th. It’s a small, cozy restaurant with a welcoming yellow interior that instantly gives you that warm Thai vibe.

The food leaned more toward Thai fusion, which made for some fun and interesting flavours. We tried a handful of dishes, and a few stood out to us:

🌶️ Gaeng Kua Sapparod – A red curry with pineapple and Thai basil. We ordered medium spicy level, it was vibrant, and fragrant. It had that nice balance of sweet and savoury that we love in Thai curries. 🍜 Khao Soi – Egg noodles in a creamy curry broth, served with chicken drumsticks. The drumsticks were on the dryer side, but we love the flavour of the curry broth. Very flavourful! 🐷 Kor Moo Yang – Grilled pork jowls with a spicy Isan-style dipping sauce. This was easily one of the highlights. The pork jowls were tender and smoky, and the dipping sauce packed a punch. Highly recommend!

The presentation was beautiful across the board. Every dish was vibrant with its colourful ingredients. So appetizing! The portion sizes were fair, and prices were quite reasonable.

Some suggestions for room improvement. Some dishes could use more depth or boldness in flavour, especially for those used to traditional Thai spice levels. Overall, a great little spot for Thai-inspired eats in the area.

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Not sure how this place gets a 4.8 and getting rave reviews but this place has got to be the worst Thai food we have ever had in Vancouver, if there was a negative star experience this place is it. Let me explain.

We came here hoping that we would have a great meal from the reviews. The photos looked appealing, so we ordered the pineapple fried rice, the chicken satay, and pad-see-ew.

We waited for 30 minutes for our food to come out and it was the chicken satay that came out first. And it was a disappointment to say the least. Dry as carpet. Never tasted such chicken before.

Then, it was the pineapple fried rice with beef. Another disappointment…. Beef was dry, the tomato was undercooked, the rice had absolutely no taste. We ate a few bites and then the final dish came.

Pad-see-ew was the probably the worst of them all. We ate literally one bite because whole dish was charred with metal from the wok. Absolute disgusting. It’s as if they did not clean the wok for a few weeks or months, we could not take the second bite cause we felt that we’d get poisoning from it.

We left with pretty everything untouched.

We paid about including tips $63.00....

I placed an advance order through a restaurant’s online ordering system on Google Maps for a gathering with friends at my home on Saturday noon. In the order, I also noted that there was a peanut allergy. However, to my surprise, I received a call from the restaurant on Friday noon, informing me that my food was ready for pickup. I clarified that my order was for Saturday, to which the restaurant simply responded with, "See you tomorrow," without further comment.

Today, I asked my friend to pick up the order on their way over, but upon arrival, the restaurant informed them that the tom yum soup’s base already contained peanuts. Without consulting me, they decided to replace it with a different soup. Additionally, they substituted mango sticky rice with another dessert without notifying me.

I find this behavior disrespectful and unacceptable. Making changes to my order without my consent is highly inappropriate.

Respond to the reply: If you are willing, please contact me via the email address registered in the ordering system, as I am not always available to take phone...